Sentences with phrase «by planetary science»

While the plans are still in their infancy, Stern and his team are hopeful that they can get their concept together in time for the next Planetary Science Decadal Survey, a massive report prepared for NASA and Congress by the planetary science community, which helps to set the space agency's priorities for solar system exploration.

Spacecraft landing on Jupiter's moon Europa could see the craft sink due to high surface porosity, research by Planetary Science Institute Senior Scientist Robert Nelson shows.

The gamma ray and neutron detector was built by Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, and is operated by the Planetary Science Institute of Tucson, Arizona.

The gamma ray and neutron detector was built by Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico, and is operated by the Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, Arizona.

Not exact matches

These problems are of such magnitudes and complexity that the quality of the future of our planetary existence now confronts us as something more than just a theoretical or imaginative issue first detailed for us by the writers of science fiction.

Fashionable planetary science loving teens will love wearing planets captured by the Hubble Space Telescope around their neck this winter.

Note: The above press release was issued by University of Arizona to coincide with a presentation at the joint 48th annual meeting of the Division for Planetary Sciences (DPS) of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) and 11th annual European Planetary Science Congress (EPSC).

We extract science by carefully modeling all the ways in which the spacecraft and the instruments themselves could have caused the apparent brightness of a planetary system to change over time... We are pretty sure we can trust our models of Spitzer down to about a part in 10,000; we are in uncharted territory as far as detector behavior is concerned.»

«We show that Imbrium was likely formed by an absolutely enormous object, large enough to be classified as a protoplanet,» said Pete Schultz, professor of earth, environmental and planetary sciences at Brown University.

And science has progressively become a bigger part of missions run by both the China National Space Administration (CNSA), which governs lunar and planetary exploration, and the China Manned Space Agency.

A postdoc at the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory of the University of Arizona and an associate research scientist with the Planetary Science Institute, Richmond is frustrated by her struggle for stability.

But according to a second model presented at the LPSC by David O'Brien of the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Arizona, Ceres doesn't have enough muscle to drive these eruptions.

A team led by Kaveh Pahlevan at Yale University calculate that as rock vapour rose from Earth's hot, roiling surface, the magnesium oxide it contained would have condensed into droplets and rained back to the surface more readily than the more volatile iron oxide, which could then have mixed into the moon - forming disc (Earth and Planetary Science Letters, DOI: 10.1016 / j.epsl.2010.10.036).

Or, the proto - moon and proto - Earth were showered by the same family of carbonaceous chondrites soon after they separated, said James Van Orman, professor of earth, environmental and planetary sciences at Case Western Reserve, and a co-author.

A recent study led by the International Institute for Carbon - Neutral Energy Research (I2CNER) at Kyushu University in Japan, and published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters, now sheds new light on this stress build - up in tectonic plates.

Mars Attacked: Planetary Scientists Vent Frustrations over Proposed Budget Cuts The field is bristling at cutbacks, proposed last month by the Obama administration, to planetary science and especially to NASA's program of robotic Mars Planetary Scientists Vent Frustrations over Proposed Budget Cuts The field is bristling at cutbacks, proposed last month by the Obama administration, to planetary science and especially to NASA's program of robotic Mars planetary science and especially to NASA's program of robotic Mars explorers

That interest is reflected in his bill's generosity toward NASA's planetary sciences program, which would grow by 19 %, to $ 2.1 billion.

Other factions within planetary - science circles would prefer to send another mission to Titan — maybe even an airborne drone, a sailboat or a submarine — or to reach for farther frontiers by sending orbiters to Uranus and Neptune, the last two planets that remain scarcely explored.

Liu said that in a separate paper that uses the same simulation, published by Liu and Hu in Earth and Planetary Science Letters in 2016, the model provided an accurate prediction for why earthquakes happen in particular locations below South America.

The research, led by Daniel Giammar, the Walter E. Browne Professor of Environmental Engineering in the School of Engineering & Applied Science, was conducted in collaboration with researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Philip Skemer, associate professor of earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences at Washington University.

Results will be presented by Dr Jan Raack of the Open University at the European Planetary Science Congress (EPSC) 2017 in Riga, Latvia on Monday, 18th Septebmer 2017.

An international research team, led by Dr. Yuji Harada from Planetary Science institute, China University of Geosciences, has found that there is an extremely soft layer deep inside the Moon and that heat is effectively generated in the layer by the gravity of Earth.

Researchers led by Caroline Beghein, assistant professor of earth, planetary and space sciences in UCLA's College of Letters and Science, used a technique called seismic tomography to study the structure of the Pacific Plate — one of eight to 12 major plates at the surface of the Earth.

Also read about women's adventures in science in Space Rocks: The Story of Planetary Geologist Adriana Ocampo by Lorraine Jean Hopping, and Gorilla Mountain: The Story of Wildlife Biologist Amy Vedder by Rene Ebersole.

Astrobiologists, who will be presenting their work at the European Planetary Science Congress (EPSC) 2013 in London on Monday 9 September, have shown that Raman spectroscopy can be used to detect micro-organisms even after they have been damaged by exposure to very high levels of radiation, as is encountered on the Martian surface.

In the meantime, speculation about the U.S.'s future in space has reached its highest point in recent memory, as made clear here last week by the proceedings of the 48th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC).

The prospect of samples being returned by Chang» e-5 next year — more than four decades since the last ones were snagged by the Soviet Union's Luna 24 in 1976 — is tremendously exciting for lunar science, says Ian Crawford, a professor of planetary science and astrobiology at Birkbeck College in London.

The team, led by Alexis Rodriguez of the Planetary Science Institute in Arizona, looked at snapshots taken from three Mars orbiters.

And Vesta's overall spectral color, as returned by NASA's orbiting Dawn spacecraft, matches that of these Vesta meteorites, Dawn team members reported today at a planetary science meeting in Nantes, France.

Jim Green, the head of NASA's Planetary Science Division, shook things up for planetary scientists this week by announcing a restructuring that will change how the division funds grant pPlanetary Science Division, shook things up for planetary scientists this week by announcing a restructuring that will change how the division funds grant pplanetary scientists this week by announcing a restructuring that will change how the division funds grant proposals.

Within that, however, the agency's science budget is slated to grow by roughly half a billion dollars, with $ 360 million allocated to earth science and about $ 175 million for planetary science.

The B612 Foundation, which includes two former NASA astronauts, Edward Lu and Rusty Schweickart, and a team of planetary science veterans, now intends to raise $ 450 million to launch a mission by July 2018.

Well into its fifth year, NASA's Curiosity rover has now shot more than 500 movies of the clouds above it, including the first ground - based view of martian clouds shaped by gravity waves, researchers reported this week at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference.

All in all, thanks to Hubble, the frontiers of planetary science are rolling back week by week.

«We're addressing long - standing and very important questions both in fundamental physics and solar science by using a planetary - science approach,» said Goddard geophysicist Erwan Mazarico.

Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Vanderbilt University, and published online this weekend by the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters in a paper titled, «Iceland is not a magmatic analog for the Hadean: Evidence from the zircon record.»

A total of 188 have been confirmed so far, and 340 are still awaiting discovery according to the results of a probability calculation presented by the two researchers in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters.

Daniel Schrag gets visitors all the time — graduate students in despair over their dissertations, fellow faculty members dropping by to chat about the Cretaceous sulfur cycle or some equally abstruse topic, or visiting scientists collaborating with him on one of the scores of scholarly papers he has churned out in a career that has earned him a professorship in Harvard's department of earth and planetary sciences and a MacArthur genius grant.

Lessem says the idea is modelled loosely on the Planetary Society headed by writer and researcher Carl Sagan, which supports planetary science research, including a hunt for asteroids in the vicinity of tPlanetary Society headed by writer and researcher Carl Sagan, which supports planetary science research, including a hunt for asteroids in the vicinity of tplanetary science research, including a hunt for asteroids in the vicinity of the Earth.

NASA / JPL - Caltech / Cornell University THE WOODLANDS, Texas — Planetary scientists, usually an affable lot, are plenty riled up at the moment.The field is bristling at cutbacks, proposed last month by the Obama administration, to planetary science and especially to NASA's program of robotic Mars ePlanetary scientists, usually an affable lot, are plenty riled up at the moment.The field is bristling at cutbacks, proposed last month by the Obama administration, to planetary science and especially to NASA's program of robotic Mars eplanetary science and especially to NASA's program of robotic Mars explorers.

Along with Harrison and Walton, additional Caltech authors on the paper, «An Ultraluminous X-ray Source Powered by An Accreting Neutron Star,» are postdoctoral scholars Felix Fürst, and Shriharsh Tendulkar; research scientists Brian W. Grefenstette and Vikram Rana; and Shri Kulkarni, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor of Astronomy and Planetary Science and director of the Caltech Optical Observatories.

Planetary science would be boosted by 16 % under the budget, to $ 1.9 billion, with explicit support for Europa Clipper, the agency's mission to make multiple flybys past Jupiter's icy moon, and the 2020 Mars rover.

«By comparing the measured craters to the number and spatial distribution of large impact basins on Mercury, we found that they started to accumulate at about the same time, suggesting that the resetting of Mercury's surface was global and likely due to volcanism,» said lead author Dr. Simone Marchi, who has a joint appointment between two of NASA's Lunar Science Institutes, one at the SwRI in Boulder and another at the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston.

Coauthor Eli Silver, professor emeritus of Earth and planetary sciences at UC Santa Cruz, and others in the CRISP program decided to pursue a 3 - D seismic study, which must precede any deep drilling, and the project was funded by the National Science Foundation in 2009.

It is the first space mission sponsored by a public organization, the 100,000 - member Planetary Society, cofounded by the late Carl Sagan, and the first financed by a media outlet, Cosmos Studios, a science - based entertainment company run by Ann Druyan, Sagan's widow and collaborator.

Bolstered by the support of Representative John Culberson (R — TX), who oversees House science appropriations, planetary science saw its budget balloon by 13 %, from $ 1.519 billion to $ 1.846 billion.

Writing in the current edition (Sept. 9, 2013) of the journal Icarus, a team led by UW - Madison Space Science and Engineering Center planetary scientists Lawrence Sromovsky, and including Kevin Baines and Patrick Fry, reports the discovery of the icy forms of water and ammonia.

In October 1999 in Padua, Italy, Dr. Chapman received the 1999 Carl Sagan Medal for Excellence in Public Communication of Planetary Science (awarded by the Division for Planetary Science of the American Astronomical Society).

It was recommended by the 2003 National Academy of Sciences» Planetary Decadal Survey («New Frontiers in the Solar System») that this first mission to the Kuiper Belt should include flybys of both Pluto and other KBOs in order to maximize the science return.

Whereas knowledge of space weather conditions at different planetary systems is a requisite for future mission planning, the scientific data to be obtained by these missions are going to provide in turn an important feedback for interdisciplinary science in the field of planetary space weather.